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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. -- Sidney Lanier
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. -- Albert Einstein
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. -- Joseph Roux
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. -- Erich Fromm
Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom. -- A. R. Rahman
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. -- Philip Stanhope
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. -- Andrew Carnegie
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. -- Karen Armstrong
I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. -- Thomas Paine
My mother, may her soul rest in peace, shaped my personality; thanks to her, I have acquired many values, good traits and skills. -- Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. -- Gelett Burgess
True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement. -- Robert Mugabe
There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer. -- John Wooden
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened. -- Wilma Rudolph
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us. -- Emile M. Cioran
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. -- Karl Marx
I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act. -- Joseph Rotblat
After student years of flat-sharing and living with other people's taste, I went into decorating overdrive when I acquired my first apartment - its floor plan not much bigger than the vintage Hermes scarves I then wore side-knotted on my head, pirate-style. -- Hamish Bowles
Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate. -- Jeffrey Kluger
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. -- Bernard de Mandeville
An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In five years, it may have acquired the quaint aura of a rotary phone. An article is usually Siamese-twinned to its date of birth. -- Cynthia Ozick
With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe. -- Orville Wright
The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions. -- Frans de Waal
You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio. On a good night, I'll push the frail barque of my psyche off into the waters of Lethe accompanied by the midnight newsreader - on a bad one, it's the shipping forecast. -- Will Self
Death is an acquired trait. -- Woody Allen
Reality is an acquired taste. -- Robert Fritz
Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates. -- Ovid
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love is a given, hatred is acquired. -- Douglas Horton
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. -- Claude Bernard
Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired. -- Woody Allen
Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste. -- Patricia Hampl
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge -- Claude Bernard
The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes. -- Gilbert Adair
Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste. -- Mark Van Doren
The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste. -- Emily Dickinson
Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. -- Plautus
Living according to God's standards is an acquired taste. -- Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. -- Sara Teasdale
Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated. -- Napoleon Hill
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired. -- Juvenal
Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. -- Mark Twain
I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty. -- Jules Breton
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age. -- Leonardo da Vinci
As a nation, I believe we've acquired faith in ourselves. -- Indira Gandhi
One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired. -- Ovid
Love is a natural feeling, hatred is an acquired one. -- Amitav Chowdhury
... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure. -- Margaret Kennedy
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. -- Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. -- Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Changing lifestyle habits acquired over many years is often extremely difficult. -- Marie Kondo
money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed. -- Helen McCloy
What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all. -- Ann Radcliffe
I just acquired a choir. I bought it for a song. -- Jarod Kintz
Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. -- Hippocrates
Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work. -- J. G. Holland
A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired. -- Publilius Syrus
Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired. -- Prudentius
Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift. -- Chris Evert
War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy. -- Alva Myrdal
Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener. -- Marvin Minsky
Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction. -- Helen McCloy
The only certainties that don't break down are those acquired in prayer. -- Reinhold Schneider
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. -- Plato
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. -- Joseph Roux
Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature". -- Ian Gardner
He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius. -- Tom Clancy
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. -- Tacitus
I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar]. -- Carrie Fisher
No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth. -- Philipp Meyer
Mother's love always peace as it not to be acquired nor deserved. -- Erich Fromm
Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about. -- Pasquier Quesnel
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone. -- Duke Ellington
Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking. -- Fritz Machlup
Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life. -- Isaac Stern
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity. -- Pope John Paul II
It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not. -- Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis
No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind. -- Cyril Connolly
No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired. -- Romano Prodi
Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge. -- Ludwik Fleck
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books. -- Alan Turing
...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything. -- Patrick Süskind
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. -- Edward Bond
...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything. -- Patrick Süskind
Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. -- Eleanor Robson Belmont
I could be anything but for the faults that I've acquired on my way. -- Matchbox 20
Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it -- Donald Dowes
The study of the past is the main portal through which culture is acquired. -- Joseph Epstein
I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes. -- Jim Crace
A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired. -- Neal A. Maxwell
Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities. -- Chanakya
Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead. -- Augustus William Hare
Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty. -- Socrates
Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality. -- Sigmund Freud
The most important things to be acquired for freedom and democracy, are identity and dignity. -- King Michael of Romania
Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream. -- Diane von Furstenberg
Simply put, the promises of God are not automatic; they must be acquired by faith. -- John Bevere
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar. -- Erica Jong
The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake! -- William Jacob Holland
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. -- David Lloyd George
Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk. -- Margaret Mary Alacoque
An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. -- Abigail Padgett
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired. -- Criss Jami
The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness. -- Henri Matisse
Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. -- Ambrose Bierce
Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice. -- Zig Ziglar
Some work hard to acquire money only to find in the end that money acquired them. -- lecrae
The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. -- Esther Williams
Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico. -- David Wilmot
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired -- Jonathan Swift

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